Assistance program
Rural Child Poverty Nutrition Center
-$117,980 committed in FY2021–FY2021
- Agency
- Food and Nutrition Service, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements
- CFDA number
- 10.549
- What it does
- University of Kentucky lead by Dr. Ann Vail was selected through a competitive process as the grantee that would establish the USDA Rural Child Poverty Nutrition Center. The roles of this Center include: • developing and administering a series of sub-grants pertinent to the purposes of this grant • coordinating relevant grant-related activities among sub-grantees and researchers • conducting an evaluation of subgrantees’ programs, and • widely disseminating information on communities’ implementation strategies and evaluation findings. The goal of the Center is to reduce child food insecurity by improving Child Nutrition Assistance program coordination with other nutrition assistance programs or services in persistently poor rural counties.
- Who benefits
- Cooperative agreements are awarded to State and local governments, hospitals, non-profit organizations and accredited colleges/universities. This is a requirement for the selected recipient of the grants and cooperative agreements, not the sub-grantees. Cooperative agreement recipients are to award sub-grants aimed at identifying, developing, and evaluating interventions and innovative approaches to strengthen the impact of Food and Nutrition Service programs on the food, nutrition, and health of program eligible participants.
- Who applies
- The grant is to be used to establish grants and cooperative agreements to identify, develop and undertake projects to meet Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) program needs and the food, nutrition, and health needs of program eligible participants.
- Authorized by
- The legislative authority for this grant announcement is Section 6(a)(3) of the National School Lunch Act.
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